Monopoly Pricing of Capacity Usage Under Asymmetric Information
研究了在消费者特征分布未知且需求向下倾斜、边际成本递增时,垄断者如何通过参考点定价、多单位竞标和广义优先服务三种策略实现利润最大化,并扩展到随机容量的情况。
The design of monopoly pricing strategies is examined in a general framework with an unknown population distribution of consumer characteristics and downward-sloping, multi-unit consumer demand. In addition, the monopolist has increasing marginal cost. Three pricing strategies are shown to implement the profit-maximizing allocation: reference point pricing, multi-unit competitive bidding with variable outputs, and generalized priority service. The analysis of pricing also is extended to include random capacity. Copyright 1993 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.